386 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



(»ii motiOD duly seconded, the report was adopted. 



MR. NELSON: I would like to ask the Doctor if he knows whether 

 the scale insects arc carried by bees or not? 



DK. FUNK: I think any insect or bird that flies will have a ten- 

 dency to carry them; the bee seldom touches anything but bloom, 

 bm the robin and the sparrow are the two great carriers; they carry 

 more than anything else. 



The SECRETARY: 1 would suggest that we go through with all 



the reports on the program and then if there are any questions, let 

 them come up after the reports are all in. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next report on the program is from the 

 Committee on Live Stock, D. A. Knuppenburg, Chairman. 



The report read by Mr. Knuppenburg, is as follows: 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LIVE STOCK. 



by n. a. Knuppenburg, chairman. 



The reports of the United States Department of Agriculture show 

 a very great increase in the value of farm animals during the past 

 few years. This increase of value has been accompanied in Penn- 

 sylvania by an increase in the number of dairy cows. There is also 

 a larger number of horses and mules in use in Pennsylvania than 

 ever before in the history of the State, even when street cars were 

 drawn by horses. The value of the domestic animals of the State, 

 including poultry, etc., animals in towns and cities as w r ell as those 

 on farms, amounts to fully $150,000,000. Parts of the State are 

 splendidly adapted to rearing horses and the experience of man} 

 farmers shows that horse raising may be conducted profitably. 



Pennsylvania is probably the greatest horse and mule consum- 

 ing state in America, and the market for good horses of all classes 

 is as good here as it is anywhere in the United States. Unfor- 

 tunately, however, this industry is by no means strong. It cannot 

 become strong until horse raisers show better appreciation of the 

 demands of the markets and use better stallions. It is a deplorable 

 fact that there is in service in this State a great many stallions of 

 mixed and cross breeding and that are afflicted with hereditary de- 

 fects of conformation and are unsound. That such stallions are 

 used is a very serious reflection on the judgment of the horse breeders 

 of the State. Pennsylvania cannot take high rank as a horse pro- 

 nging state until there arc 1 available in all breeding districts, bet- 

 ter bred stallions of high quality. Some of the "Western states 

 have inaugurated a system of licensing stallions and so far as this 

 plan has been carried out it appears to be working satisfactorily and 

 is improving the quality of the horse stock. 



The horses of Pennsylvania are constantly threatened by glanders, 

 as a result of the extensive infection of horses with glanders in some 



